Becoming immovable with knowing who you are in the Lord and knowing who He is despite various obstacles we are faced with along our way, is what becoming an overcomer is all about.
I imagine a wildebeest crossing a dry place in search for water. And all along its journey an annoying bird has decided to mount itself on this animal’s back and join him without choosing to be useful and eat the bugs he sees. Then I imagine at different times flies buzzing around his face as he treads forward slow and steady.
There soon comes along a few hyenas to try and intimidate this great beast, but he lowers his head, sticks with his herd and continues on undeterred. Water is nowhere in sight, not even a small pool, but this wildebeest remembers how the year before, and the year prior to that, that they always found water. Remembering this and feeling the thirst strengthen within him motivates him to walk on.
Other dangerous obstacles are still ahead, but this brave wildebeest is immovable in what he knows and what he wants to do.
In our lives we can relate to flies buzzing around our head with their deceptions or the annoying bird guest that refuses to mind the boundaries we have set in place, or even an occasional hyena sent our way meant to intimidate us from our path.
But like the wildebeest, we can choose to ignore these distractions, find ways to overcome the difficulties as we remain surrounded by a healthy support system and continue on with assurance that we, too, will find our destination soon enough.
I was having various distractions come at me in the past few weeks, and all while I was working hard on projects that needed a lot of my attention and energy. It took a lot for me to continue to remain focused on what was before me and not get pulled away. As well as, not allowing those distractions to derail my focus on God and His goodness. And that is when I heard the Lord tell me to become immovable in order to be an overcomer in Him.
Distractions will come and go, others will upset us and life likes to interrupt us with the unpredictable, but we always have a choice to continue on with living out who we truly are as children of God and reflecting His true nature in our choices.
Set your mind to be unyielding and immovable as you move along your journey!